August 2005 - renumbering to 7 digits postponed

Central African Republic numbers were to expand from
6-digit to 7-digit format. This change was originally scheduled
for 1 January 2005 but is postponed indefinitely due to "technical
difficulties". The existing 6-digit national number format remains
in effect.

Some changes to the current numbering assignments are noted since
the September 2004 announcement of the expansion plan:

January 2005 - original plan for 7-digit national numbering

The plan to expand from 6-digit to 7-digit format was announced in 2004
with an original plan to implement this change in January 2005.
The number expansion was postponed (see above). It is unclear when
the expansion will be attempted again, and whether the same conversion
rules would still apply. There remains a substantial amount of
number capacity under the current 6-digit format.

International prefix '00' is now standard.

Existing 6-digit numbers were to be prepended with a digit according
to the type of service.

New 7-digit numbers were to take permissive effect 23h00 local time
31 December 2004.

Mandatory use of the new format was originally planned from 30 June 2005.